When is a good time to go camping in UP Mi
Best time to go to UP this summer looking at area Gould City. Or Curtis on Lake Manistique. Any recommendations for campgrounds
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If you are not aware, several campgrounds are open all year in the U.P. and yes, we have been to them in January and February too and they have always been plowed including the individual sites. The Tahquamenon Falls State Park Lower Falls Hemlock CG for instance, has been open all winter and kept plowed with the electric on for over 30 years now since you'd mentioned Tahquamenon. The Hemlock CG unit is behind the check in booth and dump station about 2/10 of a mile and had been called the Upper CG unit at the lower falls for eons.
The lower CG unit (called Portage CG) down the steep curvy hill close to the lower falls (about a quarter mile walk) shuts down the bath house about mid October each year and we were there this year as usual for over 30 years now the day the bath house closed for the season and they drained the pipes. The Portage CG is still open after the bath house closes for another few weeks. There are several clean not stinky pit toilets with cement floors all over the falls state park and lots of flush ones too for winter use.
The upper falls road and huge parking lot is kept plowed all winter and the restaurant is open all winter too. Very busy place wirh constant vehicles with visitors and snowmobilers/hikers and cross country skiers. Even seen that huge parking lot full a few times in the dead of winter.
Lots of CG's are open all year in the Northern Lower Peninsula including the gorgeous Platte River CG, a huge CG west of Honor, MI on M-22 in Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore NP just north of the bridge over the Platte on M-22 and turn west toward Lake Michigan a couple hundred yards. Very modern nice tiled bath houses are heated and the showers have individual entry doors in the rear of the buildings. Very large paved sites in a beautiful woods setting. Also very popular all 4 seasons. Winter is first come first served. No reservation can be had.
The U.P. is usually plenty warm by July (70's to 80's) and by mid July, most of the flies are long gone. August and Sept very have few bugs or mosquitos but remember that that you are in deep woods in most of the U.P. so you will always have a few mosquitos here and there when in the deep woods but very few in the CG's etc. We never found them to a problem at all in our over 50 years of going up to and camping in the U.P.
If you are not aware, several campgrounds are open all year in the U.P. and yes, we have been to them in January and February too and they have always been plowed including the individual sites. The Tahquamenon Falls State Park Lower Falls Hemlock CG for instance, has been open all winter and kept plowed with the electric on for over 30 years now since you'd mentioned Tahquamenon. The Hemlock CG unit is behind the check in booth and dump station about 2/10 of a mile and had been called the Upper CG unit at the lower falls for eons.
The lower CG unit (called Portage CG) down the steep curvy hill close to the lower falls (about a quarter mile walk) shuts down the bath house about mid October each year and we were there this year as usual for over 30 years now the day the bath house closed for the season and they drained the pipes. The Portage CG is still open after the bath house closes for another few weeks. There are several clean not stinky pit toilets with cement floors all over the falls state park and lots of flush ones too for winter use.
The upper falls road and huge parking lot is kept plowed all winter and the restaurant is open all winter too. Very busy place wirh constant vehicles with visitors and snowmobilers/hikers and cross country skiers. Even seen that huge parking lot full a few times in the dead of winter.
Lots of CG's are open all year in the Northern Lower Peninsula including the gorgeous Platte River CG, a huge CG west of Honor, MI on M-22 in Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore NP just north of the bridge over the Platte on M-22 and turn west toward Lake Michigan a couple hundred yards. Very modern nice tiled bath houses are heated and the showers have individual entry doors in the rear of the buildings. Very large paved sites in a beautiful woods setting. Also very popular all 4 seasons. Winter is first come first served. No reservation can be had.
The U.P. is usually plenty warm by July (70's to 80's) and by mid July, most of the flies are long gone. August and Sept very have few bugs or mosquitos but remember that that you are in deep woods in most of the U.P. so you will always have a few mosquitos here and there when in the deep woods but very few in the CG's etc. We never found them to a problem at all in our over 50 years of going up to and camping in the U.P.
